In article ,
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
That's a somewhat silly concern; we launch almost all our spacecraft
out of somewhere much less than a half hour's flight time for the
rocket out from DC.

Who is "we"? The government itself? What does that prove? We're
discussing privately owned and operated rockets.

Almost all rockets launched from (e.g.) the Cape are privately owned
and operated nowadays.
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